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Re: When a Web Page Won't Load?

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In article <vilain-A7D2C7.21454718052014@news.individual.net>, Michael
Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

Davoud:
> > Yet there is nothing wrong with the server or the page--it loads fine
> > on other Macs and on iOS.
> > 
> > I seem to recall that there is a file somewhere, perhaps a preference
> > in /Users/Library or something in the bowels of the shell, that needs
> > to be purged and allowed to rebuild itself properly, but I can't
> > remember what it is.
> > 
> > Advice most welcome.
> > 
> > TIA!

Thanks for taking time to reply.

> Is the file on your local httpd server or an ISP?  You didn't mention 
> the log files on the server when you access it from the browser where 
> "it won't load".  Do they show a status of 200 plus the bytes 
> transmitted or 404 or some other status? 

http://www.eol.org "Oops! It appears that the page you want..."

> On the command line, can you use wget or curl to download page contents 
> with a URL?

Not much of a command-line person.

> If the page contents are being sent to your browser, then 
> it's the browser that's having the problem.

Yeah it's the browser--Safari--on that particular machine. Safari on
four other Macs (all with latest software) works fine.

> When you get the "won't load", what does the "View Source" display?  A 
> blank page would main that no content was transmitted to the browser.  A 
> page full of HTML code would mean the brower can't display the content.

"Oops! It appears that the page you want..." The browser has always
displayed the page previously.

> What happens when you view the page with another browser?  You also 
> didn't mention the browser and version you're having problems with.

Firefox and Chrome work just fine.

> Have you tried clearing all the browser's caches?

Yes.

> Have you tried viewing the page from same browser from another account, 
> and hence, a different set of preference files.

No.

> Have you tried zipping all the browser preference files and moving them 
> to the trash, then trying to view the page with a "newly initialized 
> environment"?

Yes.

> Just some things to investigate, assuming you did all this before 
> posting here.

Some of it. Had this problem previously, someone told me the name of
the file to purge and that fixed the problem. That's the simple
solution I was looking for here, except that this time I was going to
note the location/name of the offending file.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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When a Web Page Won't Load? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-05-18 23:01 -0400
  Re: When a Web Page Won't Load? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-05-18 21:45 -0700
    Re: When a Web Page Won't Load? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-05-19 12:50 -0400
      Re: When a Web Page Won't Load? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-05-20 08:33 -0700

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